Finalist: Excellence in Video – The Spy Who Saved Me – The New Reality

Issued by Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) · Oct 2023

There are plenty of people who will tell you Robert Barron is one of the world's greatest artists, but you won't see his masterpieces in a museum. And that’s because his work is intended to be invisible. For years, he worked as a CIA master of disguise, using prosthetics to conceal the identity of spies.

Now he uses those masterful skills on people scarred by trauma or illness, giving them the confidence to face the world again. Jackson Proskow reports for The New Reality.

Finalist: Best in Feature News – Canadian Shield: Making Armoured Vehicles for Ukraine – The New Reality

Issued by Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) · Oct 2023 · Oct 2023

When Russia invaded Ukraine, a little known Canadian manufacturer kicked its production line into high gear.

The company is called Roshel, and it makes high-tech armoured personnel carriers.

A hundred of them are now being used by Ukrainians, with hundreds more on the way. How do they do it?

Mike Drolet got a rare look inside for The New Reality and found their secret weapon.

Winner: Excellence in Video – Global Television – Rights of Nature: The New Reality

Issued by Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) · Jun 2022

Finalist: Best Photography, News or Information – Global Television – Rights of Nature: The New Reality

Issued by Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) · Jun 2023

The Magpie River in Eastern Quebec is the first ecosystem in Canada to be granted personhood rights, joining a global movement using a legal revolution to save the planet.

And as Krista Hessey found out for The New Reality, it was an alliance among a First Nation, the local county, and a group of paddlers that came together to protect the Magpie from development.